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Tarmac-delay: Virgin America Flight 404, 16 hours of nightmare (video)
March 19, 2010 - EconomieBy Kevin P. Mitchell The consequences for passengers aboard Virgin America flight 404 en route from LAX to JFK, and diverted because of heavy rain and strong winds to Stewart airport 90 miles north of New York City [last Saturday], represents &ldquo...
US real estate: Foreclosure prevention program not achieving its target
March 19, 2010 - EconomieU.S. President Barack Obama announced his administration's foreclosure prevention program in February 2009, expectation being that "as many as 3 to 4 million homeowners to modify the terms of their mortgages." In the United States, one in...
US health care: Older colon cancer patients not to be offered chemo
March 19, 2010 - SocialBy Melinda Smith The World Health Organization (WHO) lists colon cancer among the deadliest diseases. In 2004, some 639,000 people around the world died from colon cancer. If caught in time, surgery and chemotherapy are effective treatments. But a new...
US space shuttle program retiring
March 19, 2010 - ItBy Steve Mort The U.S. space shuttle program comes to an end this year, and a debate is underway over what should replace it. The retirement of the shuttle fleet could result in massive job losses in Florida. Thousands of workers protest in Titusville...
Antonio Banderas named UN goodwill ambassador on poverty
March 19, 2010 - MovieThe United Nations Development Program has named Spanish actor Antonio Banderas as a Goodwill Ambassador in the fight against poverty. The U.N. said Wednesday Banderas will work to enact the U.N. Millennium Development Goals that were established to...
US health care: Obama postpones Indonesia, Australia trip
March 19, 2010 - PoliticomBy Kent Klein U.S. President Barack Obama has postponed his trip to Indonesia and Australia until June. The president had been scheduled to leave on Sunday, 21 March, but will remain in Washington to help push his health care reform plan through Congress...
US health care: House to hold crucial vote Sunday
March 19, 2010 - PoliticomBy Cindy Saine The U.S. House of Representatives is set to hold a crucial vote on Sunday on sweeping health care reform legislation. President Barack Obama has postponed his planned Asia-Pacific trip to Indonesia and Australia for a second time to be...
US health care: US Congress waging fierce final battle
March 19, 2010 - PoliticomBy Jim Malone U.S. President Barack Obama and his Democratic Party allies in Congress are making one last push for health care reform after more than a year of debate. Republicans and grass roots conservative activists are making their own last ditch...
Retired US General: Gay Dutch troops contributed to Srebrenica massacre
March 19, 2010 - PoliticomBy Michael Bowman A former top U.S. and NATO commander says the Netherlands' inclusion of gays in their military rendered Dutch peacekeeping troops unable to prevent the slaughter of thousands of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995. Retired U.S. Marine...
Moldovan Premier: Early elections 'unavoidable'
March 18, 2010 - PoliticomMoldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat has warned that early elections are "unavoidable" despite his government's attempts to prolong its six-month tenure, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports. The country's parliament has already failed to elect...